Love to Hike with Jax

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back in San Diego CC is three months old. See any resemblance to her mother Linny so long ago?

Oh good. Not are there just ugly white tents at The Ranch but they replaced the ugly white Geo-Domes with more even uglier tents.

I thought I was going to be able to say that it's the first year that Kobae hasn't escaped from his pen but he broke right through the gate last week and headed out toward Jackson Hole when Jake ran across him hiking down the road.

It's been just about a year since Jax and I got swept into a flood we Jax barely got out of the truck before the road collapsed completely under us.

About three weeks before Jax and I had the flood issue Linny had a much bigger one. The truck was crashed and she tried to get around the Base Camp sign flood but got swept away grabbing the gate as she went by which saved her life. This is moments before what it looked like. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PaqKbGW0LzA

Hiking with Jax and Kobae

Many times we'll wait in the shade for Kobae to catch up and then we'll let him pass us and I'll ask Jax to "Go find Kobae". He looks at me reluctantly as if saying "Why do we care?" Then he'll head off trying to pick up the trail.

Occasionally I think he leads me the wrong way. Nothing against Kobae I'm sure.

Chicken Corner

Jax and I took guests out to Chicken Corner on the side by side. Fake Chicken Corner first.

Then the real Chicken Corner where Jax and I walked around.

Good Day for Jax

Teresa went hiking with Jax.

Then I went hiking with Jax.

Most Days

Most days the hikes are Kobae, Jax, and I. Some days Kobae hangs around the lodge in particular if there is a dog here so he can protect his turf. Jax seems a little happier on those days as we don't have to wait every 100 feet for Kobae.

Jax has recovered from his encounter with the raccoons a week or two ago. Raccoon did a run by trying to snatch his bait hot dog and Jax was all over it. He's back to walking down the porch and eating out of the same bowl the raccoons do just to irritate them.

Not only are the 100s gone, so are the 90s, and the 80's are scarce. Most days temps are 60s and 70s. Instead of showing guests how the air conditioners and coolers work we're gonna have to break out the heaters and one of these nights soon Kobae is going to move back into the laundry room as his 17th year here comes to a close with a month or so left before he snowbird's it to San Diego for the winter.

September

The nights are busy. Six to eight raccoons each evening, one or two skunks, five to eight foxes, most gray, one red. No ringtail. During the month of September I think I saw the ringtail just once. She showed up ten times that night, took a hot dog each time and then came back five minutes later and took another. Haven't seen her in a couple weeks. I think back this is the second time I ran out of ringtails. They are the most entertaining of all the critters that come to the porch.

The morning feed of Colorado chipmunks, white-tailed antelope squirrels, and rock squirrels is about the same. Where the old firepit use to be at the lodge we had a pile of wood there and the Colorado chipmunks have made that their home so it's a pile of wood that will never be used.

In the bird world the Eurasian doves mostly eat at Tiffany's three in the back yard off the deck. In the early days as their underside looks much like a sharp-shinned hawk and a Cooper's hawk when they would land it would scare all the other's who had gathered to eat and they would all take off. The Eurasion doves seeing everybody run would think there was a hawk coming and abort their landing and taking off. In time they learned to land 20 feet from the feeding area and then walk over so as not to scare everyone and in turn scare themselves. The white-crowned sparrows mostly eat there also. The red-winged blackbirds hang out by the perished cottonwood tree at Breakfast at Tiffany's 2. When they migrate the cowbirds take their place. The house finch's rule Breakfast at Tiffany's one across the driveway.

It looks like a couple more ugly tents have showed up across the river in the same places the Geo-domes were.